From: Erik Ian Kennedy (erikiken@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 18:46:18 EDT
Thanks.
The way it's set up, there are a number of slave
servers running, and all the clients (80 or so) point
to the slaves. So, I was thinking I could maybe just
tar off all the DNS data, ftp it over, untar it, and
then have the NT admins (who manage the slaves) change
where they point.
Would this work? If so, do I just need to grab the
files in /var/named and /etc/named (I can only see
those two directories as having any DNS data in them).
BTW, yes, they are using bind. No real motivation to
get away from that right now.
Erik
--- Barry Finkel <b19141@ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV> wrote:
> >You would probably be better off just setting up
> you new box as a
> >primary (You can have 2 primary servers, you just
> have to make updates
> >to each of them when you add/change something).
>
> If you do not care about the order of records in a
> zone, you could
> set up the new server as a slave server for the
> zones, get them
> transferred (via the DNS zone transfer protocol),
> and then change the
> new server from slave to master. If you have only a
> handful of small
> zones, FTPing a tarball of the zones might make more
> sense.
>
> >It also makes a difference what software you use.
> I assume you are
> >looking at BIND since that is usually the defacto
> standard. Before you
> >make any final decisions on BIND (if you have a
> choice), I really
> >recommend taking a look at djbdns. Just about
> everyone that has tried
> >djbdns and has any experience with BIND will tell
> you that they will
> >never use BIND again if they have any choice at
> all.
> >
> >djbdns links:
> >http://cr.yp.to/
> >http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
> >http://lifewithdjbdns.com/
>
> I do not want to start a flame war, but from my
> subscriptions to
>
> bind-users@isc.org
> bind9-users@isc.org
>
> I get a different viewpoint regarding the djbdns
> software. I have not
> used djbdns, so I can not make any personal
> comparison.
>
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